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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. A mineral form of titanium dioxide, TiO2, having characteristic orthorhombic crystals and a red-brown to black color.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. One of the three forms in which titanium dioxid occurs in nature. It is found in orthorhombic crystals of a brown or yellow color to black, and adamantine to metallic luster. Jurinite is another name for the same mineral. Arkansite is an iron-black variety from Magnet Cove, Arkansas.

Wiktionary

  1. n. A dark brown mineral form of titanium dioxide, with the chemical formula TiO2.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. A mineral consisting of titanic oxide, and hence identical with rutile and octahedrite in composition, but crystallizing in the orthorhombic system.

Etymologies

  1. After Henry James Brooke (1771-1857), British mineralogist.

Examples

  • “Rutile is made up mostly of titanium dioxide with two rarer polymorphs anatase or octahedrite, which is a tetragonal mineral of pseudo-octahedral habit, and brookite, which is an orthorhombic mineral, the Doctor explained to her.”

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  • “A set of specimens was exhibited by the Ellenville Zinc Company, consisting of strikingly beautiful crystalline masses of quartz galina, sphalerite and chalcopyrite and specimens of the rare mineral, brookite.”

    New York at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, St. Louis 1904 Report of the New York State Commission

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